Oct 19 (Wed)

Opening Address

Prof. Yo-Ichiro SATO and/or Prof. Masayoshi NAKAWO

Session 1 "Human History in the Changing Climate"

14:00-15:30

Speakers (prearranged)

P1-1: Akio KITOH, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan

Approach to Human Impact on Climate through Modeling the Past and Future Climate (provisional)

P4-1: Qibin ZHANG, Institute of Botany, China and Osamu KOBAYASHI (Ehime University)

Ecohydrological constraints on the growth of Oases forest in a semi-arid to hyper-arid inland watershed

P2-4: Shaopeng HUANG, The University of Michigan, USA

"Penetration of human induced warming in the continental landmasses"

Break

Session 2 "Challenging for Better Human/Water Relationships"

15:45-17:15

Speakers (prearranged)

P1-1: Chieko UMETSU, RIHN, Japan

Human Security and Water Resources in South India

P4-1: Goudong CHENG, Cold & Arid Regions Environmental & Engineering Research Institute, China

" Mitigation of water shortage in the HeiheBasin, western China "

P2-4: William C. Burnett, Florida State University, USA

"Human Impacts on Land-Ocean Interaction"

Commentators
On climate change
P1-1: "Akiyo YATAGAGAI, RIHN, Japan (undecided)
P4-1: Koji FUJITA, Nagoya University, Japan
P2-4: Chung-Hu Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

On water resources
P1-1: Mehmet Ekmekci, Hacettepe University, Turkey (undecided)
P4-1: Maki TSUJIMURA, Tsukuba University
P2-4: Jun Shimada, Kumamoto University